Kathmandu: Dean R. Thompson has been nominated US Ambassador to Nepal. US President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Dean Thompson as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Nepal, the White House said in a statement.
Thompson will replace current Ambassador Randy Berry.
Thompson is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor. He currently serves as the State Department’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs and was the acting Assistant Secretary from 2020 to 2021.
Prior to that, Thompson was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania. Thompson also was the Consul General of the U.S. Consulate in Kolkata, India.
Among other assignments, he served as Director of the State Department’s Executive Secretariat Staff, Deputy Director of the State Department Operations Center, Director of the Operations Center Crisis Management Staff, and Deputy Director for Information Resources Management for the Executive Secretariat.
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